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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
The Creole and Her suitor.

Creole girls have scant opportunities
for meeting men in the social freedom
granted to American girls. Male visitors
who go week after week, month after
month, are not encouraged in their aim
less attentions. The creoles consider this
attention, which does not mean marriage,
as more or less compromising to a girl
and as preventing the visits Of eligible
suitors Not more than decade since a
man who sought the society of a girl at
her fathers house several times in quick
succession without declaring his inten-
tions was liable to have them demanded
by father, brother or mother. More than
one man, a stranger to this custom, has,
from Quixotic sense nf honor. married
girl whom he had never thought of as
his wife rather than have it be supposed
that he had compromised her. This GUS
tom has given way before the march of
American manners.
1t must not be supposed that the pres
ence Of chaperon in any way interferes
with the gayety and ease of intercourse
between young people. AS both sexes are
brought up in the most intimate COM
panionship with their elders, the latter
always keep their hold upon the thoughts
and feelings and pleasures of youth, and
never cease to have sympathetic COM
partnership with young people. Harper
BaZar.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
A Brutal Ruler.

Rosas, for many years dictator Of the
Argentine states, was a capricious tyrant,
who turned the republic into slaughter
shed. He once invited number Of In
dian chiefs to meet him in council at
Buenos Ayres. After parading them with
mock honors through the streets of the
city, he had them brought under the
portico Of the cathedral, where number
of gibbets stood ready. In moment the
chiefs were seized, bound and run up,
and their bodies were left dangling in the
air.
He once played an ape like trick on the
British minister, Mr.. Vaudeville, whom
the tyrant feared and hated. One of the
favorite dishes of the people is nlaza-
mora, which is made from maize crushed
in mortar. Roses was expecting the
minister to visit him one evening at his
country house. AS the hour arrived
Manuelita, his beautiful daughter, acting
on her fathers orders, stood on the
veranda, pounding maize.
The Englishman, finding her thus en-
gagged in menial labor and showing signs
of fatigue, courteously offered to relieve
her. After family declining, she allowed
him to pound the maize, when suddenly
Rosas, who had been watching, appeared
on the veranda accompanied by train
of courtiers. His object had been to
show to them the envoy of England en-
gagged in servile labor under the roof Of
the dictator. - Youths Companion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
On the summit Of Mount SHASTA.


The wind and cold were so severe that
our stay on the summit was shorter than
one could wish; however, one hour is
about as good as two for scene to which
weeks could not do justice. Northern
California and part of Oregon lay spread
out like great birds eye map. To the
southeast, seventy-five miles away, the
SHOWS of Lassen's s peak seemed quite near,
and far beyond it are visible the white
tops of other peaks in the great Sierra;
while at an equal distance north the beau
tiful symmetry of Mount Pitt in Oregon
shows white above the Cascades, which
stretch ridge after ridge for leaguesabe-
yond. Beyond the rugged and broken
ranges toward the coast the air is cloudy,
and we are unable to see the Pacific. The
valleys at our feet are SO smoky that the
lower part of our view is much limited.
The view of Mount Shasta itself is grand
beyond description. West of us, more
than half mile lower, and two or three
miles distant, is the great crater of the
mountain. More than half of the great
rim is yet intact-what is left of huge
bowl mile in diameter, whose side seems
to have been burst out by its molten con-
tents. In other directions, from the sum-
NIT, great serrated ridges of rock stretch
down into the forest; while between them
ever narrowing areas of snow extend for
miles to meet the trees, like guards to
keep the green from infringing ON its
white domain. From our great height
the lower part of the snow, steep though
it really is, looks nearly level, as do the
wooded slopes and valleys beyond; and a
passing cloud looks in the sunshine like a
white sheet spread on the dark green
carpet of pines. IF. G. Freeman in Over
land Monthly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
GOLD LEAF SIGNS.

How the Secret of Making Gold Leaf
Stick to the Glass Was Discovered.
''The reason that SO many gold leaf
signs on glass rub off, = said painter as
he paused in putting some gold leaf on a
sign, s'is that people don't pay enough
for the work. If you look at the gold
leaf above the door of the Merchants
National bank you viii find it as good as
when it was put on in 1878. The best
signs are those in the railroad windows in
Broadway. They were done by George
III. Mccarthy, the most expert man in
the business. Those signs done right
along, without waiting for each portion
to thoroughly dry and harden, are al
ways poorly done. 2
ssHow is the work done on CLASP
s'The glass is first moistened with a
size made of isinglass dissolved in hot
water. The gold leaf sticks to that. Let
ters are then perfectly formed on the
yarnish is dry we wipe off the gold with
a piece of wet cotton. Then it is shaded,
and then vanished again to preserve it.
Good work, which people get when they
pay for it, allows full time for each of
these processes.
lis there any secret about the size of
isinglass?'
s.There isn't now. 1t used to be a
very close secret. 1t was brought here
in 1850 by an Englishman named Hale
He used to do up the signs in a style
that American painters couldn't touch.
They tried their best to discover the
secret of the size he used, but couldn't
catch him. Other Englishmen came
over, and they had all the good
gold leaf business to themselves. I
was working as an apprentice of 13
in 1856 for John Mccarthy, who had the
secret. Every time he wanted to mix
the size he would send me out to buy an
egg and to get piece of charcoal. Then
he would send me up stairs. One day I
got the egg and charcoal and went up
stairs as usual. I had hole in the floor
over the stove, and I went one eye on
him. He put the charcoal in the stove
and burned it. Then he cracked and
sucked the egg. Next he took out of his
pocket a little paper and poured out of it
something white into the water. After I
had come down stairs and he had gone
out looked around on the floor and
found some white threads of something,
I didn't know what. cSScluded to go
to the druggists where he bought it.
There I asked for twenty-five cents
worth of it, and told the clerk I didn't
know the name.
/" Isinglass you mean, he said.
$50 he put it up, and mixed some
size. One day was working away maxi
ing some gold letters on glass myself, and
in comes Mccarthy. He looked at me
pretty sharp and said:
!" Where did you get that size?'
oh, 1 got an egg and run the white
through a piece of charcoal to clarity it,
replied.
''He didn't say another word. gave
away the secret and practically ran the
Englishmen out, for the Americans can
work faster than they. New York
Evening Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

Offers will frequently help themselves
to trout, which they catch with some
dexterity under the rock shelves, and in
variably bring out of the water to some
favorite spot where they can be eaten at
leisure. A Scotch story tells Of a shep-
herds wife who used day by day to visit a
certain favorite position of this kind
where the otter was wont to land with
its prey, take bite of its shoulder, and
leave the rest. These relics the old wife
gathered morning by morning, feeding
herself and household from an excellent
and never failing supply. One day the
laird shot the otter, 'puir beastie, and
much did she lament the loss of her fish
monger. Trade Review.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
The Society Gossip Business.

First Newspaper Proprietor Yes, busi-
ness has been pretty dull this summer.
Advertising has been awfully poor.
Second ditto-My dear sir, you should
go into the society gossip business. We
save hundreds of dollars every week IN
composition, and our receipts are three
field what they ever were before.
ST don't understand. "
Easiest thing in the world. We get
one of our men to go through the direc-
tory and pick out lot of names. Each
name is worked into paragraph. Every
man and every woman who sees his OF
her name in the paper sends down an
order for fifty or a hundred papers to dis
tribute among friends. Weuse the same
matter every day for a week or 80. Peo-
pie don't read the stuff, you know; they
only look for their names, and down
comes another order every day that 9
name appears. tell you, sir, it is a big
thing. Advertising is nothing to it. -
Boston Transcript.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
Theory Concerning Gray Hair.

/ have theory regarding preventing
gray hair which think is new. At least
/ have not heard anybody else advance it.
1t is this, that when the head is attacked
by disease either one of three things must
give way: the brain; the hair or the color
Of the hair. If the hair gives way the
man becomes bald; if the color of the
ham yields then prematl rely gray hair is
induced. It is easy to see that either Of
these results is preferable to the failure of
the brain, and of all three it is better that
the hair should turn gray than that the
brain should weaken or the subject be-
come bald. Young men with gray hair
may find considerable consolation in this
theory of mine if they cannot find any
thing else in it.-Dr. G. Fl. Hughes in
Globe-D Democrat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
Brown Bread and Mind Cure,

The beneficial effect of the mind cure
process is shown by the experience of a
young man who had been ''bucking the
tiger" in Portland, Me-, and had met
with the usual run Of bad luck. He
started in with over $10O, and at the close
of his sitting he had but twenty five cents
remaining. This sum was not enough
for a stake, and SO the unfortunate
player left the den in search of some
other turn of luck. Not far from the
gaming house he met an acquaintance
who complained of a very troublesome
disorder in his nervous system, and asked
advice on the subject. The gamester
thought it over, and finally made an
agreement to meet his friend later, after
which he departed in search of food.
Baked beans and brown bread made up
his fare. While eating he mechanically
rolled some of the bread into ball, then
an idea flashed upon him. He proceeded
to roll the bread into good sized pills, un-
til he had made thirty-six of them, all of
which he took to his suffering friend,
and after giving directions regarding
their use, received So for the three
dozen. With this money he sped to the
gambling table, and in short time won
$3.50. A few weeks afterward he met
his friend and received his blessing for
effecting SO speedy cure of his trouble.
Boston Globe.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
charles sumner and His Friends.


Summer was very careful of the feel
ings of his personal friends, many of
whom disagreed emphatically with him
on political subjects. Some of them were
not of the same party with himself; some
were not Of the same wing of the party.
After President Grant and his cabinet be-
came estranged from the senator, certain
of his friends failed to follow him.
Among them was the journalist, Maj.
Ben: Perley Poore, who, in his letters
and kilograms, took strong ground for
the president and against the senator.
The contest at the time was exceedingly
bitter, and "Perley So dispatches reflected
the degree of acerbity felt by the presi-
dents friends.
Summers S friends were inclined to take
issue with the journalist, holding that the
tone of his letters was incompatible with
his personal relations toward the senator,
and brought them to Summers S attention.
He would hear just enough of them to
know what was being spoken of, and
then, if the paper had been handed him,
would throw it into the waste basket, ex-
claiming: 81 like him too well toread his
letters He was once asked, ssHow can
you like him when he speaks of you in
such terms?" and his reply was: 81 like
the person, not the writer; do my duty
as / see it; let him do his as he sees it.
Why should we quarrel" Arnold
Burgess johnson in The Cosmopolitan.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
The neaver,s Awkward aait.

Released upon the ground the beavers
make off, with curious shambling gait.
a compound of shuttle and waddle,
with strong tendency to fall forward
upon the nose at every step. On closer
examination the cause of this ungraceful
style of locomotion was found to be two
fold; first, their hind legs were at least
one third longer than their fore legs, the
extra length being in the femur; and
secondly, they were digitigrade in front,
and plantigrade behind, or, as our French
cook, Francois, expressed it: ''Ze front
ligue. he go teeptoe, CONNIE de dogue, or
le chat; re behind hgue, he make walk
flat foot pied terre- like re bair, or ze
man. If one will try to walk on all
fours, with the soles of the feet and the
tips of the fingers touching the ground.
he will have a tolerably fair idea of
beaverine locomotion.- P. Allord in
Outing.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
The Proper Nantch DAME.

The Nautch girls arranged themselves
into half circle, their scarlet costumes
forming bright crescent terminating at
either end in a mass OF spectators, whose
half naked bodies, varying in color from
pale olive to mahogany, were arrayed in
costumes scarcely less snowy than the
dancers. The chaperone tom toms an
appropriate Nautch accompaniment on
drum with his fingers and four pretty
girls advance from the half circle and,
favoring me with quartet of killing
smiles and quartet of coquettish glances
from their bright, dark eyes, they COM
mence to dance. An idea seems to pre-
vail in Occidental minds that the Indian
Nautch dance is a very naughty thing,
but nothing is further from the truth.
OF course. it can be made naughty, and,
no doubt often is, but then so can many
another form Of innocent amusement.
The proper Nautch dance is a decorous
and artistic performance wiIen properly
danced; the graceful motions and elegant
proportions of the human form, as re-
vealed by 1.-THE and graceful dancers, are
to be viewed with an eye purely artistic
and critical as a Venus or other produc-
ton of the sculptor's studio Only the
British matron would consider Nautch
dance in any degree indecorous. The
four dancers take the hem of their red
garment between the thumb and finger
of the right hand, spreading its ample
folds into the figure Of an open fan by
bringing the outstretched arm almost on
a level to the shoulder. A mantle Of
transparent muslin, fringed with silver
spangles, is worn about the head and
shoulders in the same indescribably grace
full manner as the mantilla of the Span
ish senorita. Raising a portion of this
aloft in the left hand and keeping the fan
intact with the right, the dancers twirl
around and change position with each
other, their supple figures meanwhile as
suming variety of graceful motions and
postures from time to time. Now they
initiate the spiral movements of a serpent
climbing around and upward on an i'm
aginary pole; again they assume a charm
ing posture, their dtlskv countenances
half hidden in seeming coquetry behind
the muslin mantle, the large red fan
waved gently to and fro, the feet unmov-
ing, but the undulating motions of the
body and the tremor of the limbs sufficing
to jingle the tiny ankle bells. India Cor.
Boston Herald.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
A Tidal water wheel,

The water wheel that runs the works
of the Sagadahoc Fertilizer company, at
Bowdoinhan, Me-, is probably the only
one Of its kind in existence. It is twenty
seven feet in diameter, with foot of its
rim out Of water at high tide. The
spokes are wide, and set diagonally, like
the vanes of windmill. It turns eighteen
hours of the day by tide power, running
one way with the flow, the other with
the ebb. With one football Of the tide
this wheel gives about fifty horse power.
It has been in use since 1861 Industrial
Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

There are two church bells at Messilla,
Mexico, that are valuable. They were
cast in 1775, and it is said that just before
the casting was made at least $1,000
worth of gold and silver jewelry was
dropped into the molten mass of metal by
the devout, who thought thus to propiti-
ate their patron saints. The bells are to
be melted and the precious rnetals recoy-
cred. New York Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
4 Pluckx POWER Boy.

When Farragut's squadron was before
New Orleans one of the powder boys saw
a shell drop dangerously near the maga-
zine. The fuse was burning furiously,
but the boy picked up the shell al D. tossed
it overheard The boy was Oscar Peck.
He lives in Bridgeport, Conn, and he has
just received, in consideration of his
bravery, back pension money amounting
R "a, 4,220. New York Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

Do not give boy kitten for play
mate give him puppy. Boy and kit
ten will grow up into mollycoddle and
a cat. Boy and puppy will grow up into
young man and dog.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

THIN Old Man (cramped and cross)-
This car ought to charge by weight.
Stout Woman (regarding him cons
temptuously) II they did, they'd never
hive slipped 10 pick you up.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

Mrs. DR.. Ellis, an American lady, is
physician to the Queen Of Corea. She
has apartments in the royal palace at
Seoul, and receives an annual salary Of
$4,000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
A woman,s Temper.

If Iwant to tell a woman's temper I
watch her eyeIids. You can read man
the same way, but not so readily. A
woman with a fiery temper viii move her
eyelids with snap, and that snap be-
trays her. Another who is easy going
and hard to arouse moves her eyelids
languidly. One with a quick brain and
temper furious when aroused just willks
steadily, but neither quickly nor slowly,
until engaged IN interesting conversation.
Cor. Boston Journal.
Father, said a young man, find it very
difficult to remember many things in
connection with my business. How is
it your memory is better than mine
That's easy, replied the old man +
you ever loan halt the money have
loaned you will never forget it. Leans
ing money strengthens the memory
borrowing money ruins it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

Therb is one household article that
appeal to have escaped the decorating
craze the washtub.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
PROGRESS.
IhaYe learned

have learned
This doctrine from the vanishing Of youth,
The pictured primer, true, is thrown aside;
But its first lesson liveth in my heart,
shall go on through all eternity
Thank God, l only am an embyro still;
The small beginning of a glorious soul,
An atom that shall fill immensity.
A c. Coke.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

The law cannot make man moral,
but it can make him dreadfulIy uncom-
Portable when he is immoral.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

The Jewish population Of the United
States has increased from 50. 900 to 5OO,-
! 600 since I845.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

You are weak. said widow to her son
when he demonstrated against her mar
rying again.
/ know it, lie replied. am 50 weak I
can't 60 a step,father.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

CAnada's population is estimated at
1000. 900.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01

Meets in the Library and Lyceum Build
ing. South Street. first Friday evening OF
each mouth.
Geo. I. Werts, Mayor; Alexander CHS
olm, Recorder; Phanett G. Baker, Patrick
Farrelly, Aldermen; James G. Dustan. Ed
win A. Doty, Robert D. Foote. Thos. NAL
lev. Frank Schureman, Councllmen. G..
Anp. Muir. Clerk and Treasurer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
Board of Education.

John D. Guerin, Stephen Pierson, Geo,
W, COLES, H. A. Freeman. Jos. H. Van
Doren, Frank H. Fairchild, E. o. Peck,
Enoch T. Caskey, F. J Richters.
John D. Guerin, President Enward U.
Lyon. Secretary,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-10

There appeared on the fourth
page of THE REPUBLICAN few
weeks ago an advertisement of a
British American claim agency,
with headquarters in New York, to
which was appended list of names
purporting to be among those who
have money awaiting claimants in
the Bank of England. 1t is hardly
necessary to state that the alleged
agency is fraud of the deepest dye,
and the scheme is simply to obtain
money from the gullible public.
There alleged agents were arrested
in New York last Friday, and are
now lying in Jail awaiting trial.
Their books were sliced, and bear
evidence that the agents have re-
ceived $Ioo per day for manymonths,
but that for the three months last
past the daily receipts have aver
aged $500. Their scheme was an
alluring one, a supplementary agent
in Chancery Lane, was employed to
write favorable (but fctitious) letters
on claims, which letters were for
warded to the applicant and in most
cases were successful in wringing
another cash installment. The adver-
tisement appeared without the knowl.
edge of the publishers, but we assure
our readers that nothing of that ma
ture will hereafter find space IN our
columns,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-10
TILE failure of the Deficiency bill

THE failure of the Deficiency bill
to become law, by reason of the
presidents pocket veto, will seriously
interfere with various departments
Of the government, in anticipation
of the needs Of which the bill was
framed. The department ofjustice
will, it is said, be the greatest suf-
ferer, though the workings of the
postoffice department will be Grip
pied thereby. This illustrates, the
result will determine how forcibly,
the presidents utter lack Of knowl-
edge as to the needs and require
ments of the departments, his inabil-
ity to place himself in a position to
make them efficient and perform to
the best advantage the purposes for
which they were created. 1t is not
strange, however, for he has never
evidenced a desire to tamiliarize
himself with the new conditions
with which he has been surrounded
since the accident in 1854. He is
centented to recline amid the gor-
geous appointments of the White
House, applying his veto at every
opportunity, and leaving the depart
ments in the hands of his secretaries
of we'll demonstrated inability.